config/http.js

/**
 * HTTP Server Settings
 * (sails.config.http)
 *
 * Configuration for the underlying HTTP server in Sails.
 * Only applies to HTTP requests (not WebSockets)
 *
 * For more information on configuration, check out:
 * http://sailsjs.org/#/documentation/reference/sails.config/sails.config.http.html
 */

module.exports.http = {

  /****************************************************************************
  *                                                                           *
  * Express middleware to use for every Sails request. To add custom          *
  * middleware to the mix, add a function to the middleware config object and *
  * add its key to the "order" array. The $custom key is reserved for         *
  * backwards-compatibility with Sails v0.9.x apps that use the               *
  * `customMiddleware` config option.                                         *
  *                                                                           *
  ****************************************************************************/
  bodyParser: function() {
    var xmlParser = require('express-xml-bodyparser')();
    var bodyParser = require('body-parser')();
    return function(req, res, next) {
      if (req.headers && (req.headers['content-type'] == 'text/xml' || req.headers['content-type'] == 'application/xml')) {
        return xmlParser(req, res, next);
      }
      return bodyParser(req, res, next);
    };
  },

  middleware: {

  /***************************************************************************
  *                                                                          *
  * The order in which middleware should be run for HTTP request. (the Sails *
  * router is invoked by the "router" middleware below.)                     *
  *                                                                          *
  ***************************************************************************/

     order: [
       'startRequestTimer',
       'cookieParser',
       'session',
       'myRequestLogger',
       'bodyParser',
       'handleBodyParserError',
       'compress',
       'methodOverride',
       'poweredBy',
       '$custom',
       'router',
       'www',
       'favicon',
       '404',
       '500'
     ],

  /****************************************************************************
  *                                                                           *
  * Example custom middleware; logs each request to the console.              *
  *                                                                           *
  ****************************************************************************/

     myRequestLogger: function (req, res, next) {
       sails.log.info("Requested :: ", req.method, req.url, req.headers['content-type']);
       return next();
     }


  /***************************************************************************
  *                                                                          *
  * The body parser that will handle incoming multipart HTTP requests. By    *
  * default as of v0.10, Sails uses                                          *
  * [skipper](http://github.com/balderdashy/skipper). See                    *
  * http://www.senchalabs.org/connect/multipart.html for other options.      *
  *                                                                          *
  ***************************************************************************/

    // bodyParser: require('skipper')

  },

  /***************************************************************************
  *                                                                          *
  * The number of seconds to cache flat files on disk being served by        *
  * Express static middleware (by default, these files are in `.tmp/public`) *
  *                                                                          *
  * The HTTP static cache is only active in a 'production' environment,      *
  * since that's the only time Express will cache flat-files.                *
  *                                                                          *
  ***************************************************************************/

  // cache: 31557600000
};